Subject: Re: Answer to: What happened to Hitomi?
From: "Phoney" <we436@freenet.victoria.bc.ca>
Date: 8/30/1997, 7:17 PM
To: <fanfic@fanfic.com>, "Twister" <twister@escape.ca>

Well, Hitomi sure was a CONVINCING persona...reacting in a perfectly
feminine way to my male piggishness..

There are these fakers EVERYWHERE on the net..we've unmasked a few
ourselves on IRC .. one guy had been having a freakin' AFFAIR with
one..he left irc in DISGUST when the truth came out..

I wonder if these dudes have any shame. ^^

I could be wrong, but it sure sounds like a handle. 

Ichinohei IS an alias...this was casually revealed to me a 
LOOONG time ago.  I didn't think it meant that Hitomi didn't exist, just 
that it was someone else like her, only using a different name.

       Still, I am a little bitter about this, as are the people who
devulged personal stuff to 'Hitomi'. A handle is fine, but to not admit
it--is not a very nice thing to do. ESPECIALLY considering what happened a
year or so ago with the April Fool's Joke Hitomi Incident!! That makes me
smolder a little.

Yah, they take it a little far..

       I once asked Grimreaper(another friend) what he thought I was like,
and one of those characteristics was 'innocent'. I was skeptical about that,

I wouldn't say you're innocent or naive..I am curious though, how long
have you used the 'net?  If you haven't been on it for more than a year
or two, it's easy to believe that people are who they say they are (I know!
cause i got suckered like this too!).  Eventually though, ya learn to
take everything with a grain of salt..even people's identities.  This is
unfortunate because there are so many opportunities on the net, but you have
to be paranoid because of only a few sickos..

signed,pnt